Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:51:23 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 |
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:35:19AM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > We do need something for the multicast messaging. Whether that's > supporting AF_LOCAL, SOCK_RDP with multicast or something else (POSIX > message queue extensions ?). There's no real IP layer reliable ordered > multicast delivery system that is low latency and lightweight because > once it hits real networks it changes from a hard problem into a > seriously hard problem because of multicast implosions and the like.
This was attempted in the past with AF_DBUS, but the networking maintainers rightfully pointed out that the model there did not work.
thanks,
greg k-h
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